PRAYER MOMENT
Thursday
4 December 2014
THE
EVERLASTING ROCK
Pause. Be still in God’s presence.
Reading: “Trust in the Lord for ever,
for the Lord is the everlasting Rock; he has brought low those who live high up
in the steep citadel.” (Isaiah 26:1-6)
Reflection. I am now by the sea and it
is constant motion; it attacks the rocks and recedes eternally. They remain unmoved
no matter the force of the waves. No wonder the rock was dear to the psalmists
and the prophets, and was taken up by Jesus with the image of the man building
his house on rock and the new name he chose for Simon. But the image deepens
when we have Jesus asleep in the boat and the waves breaking over the side and
the disciples terrified. ‘Why did you doubt?’ ‘Well, why not when there was
nothing solid beneath us?’ Jesus calls us to go deeper and find that solid
foundation within where he dwells. It is easy to say but here it is:
Unemployment, poverty, illness or political woe – nothing can disturb such
faith. True, you cannot tell a poor man to go and pray and do nothing to help
him. But the call remains; ‘trust in the Lord’ whatever our circumstances.
Prayer. Lord, help us to build on
rock even when we ache with pain. Help us to reach deep within to find where you live in us. Amen.
David Harold-Barry SJ
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